Rogerson's Village Historic District

Rogerson's Village is a cotton mill community in North Uxbridge, Massachusetts, arranged along Hartford Avenue and the Mumford River. Its focal point is the pair of stone mills, the Crown (1823-25) and the Eagle (1827), joined by a brick unit of 1851 that spans the river. Nearby are a brick community center with a store, meeting space and tenements, rows of brick workers' cottages, wooden tenements, an owner's house called Gray Rock, and a brick machine shop and storage building. The district was listed because it preserves a nearly complete early 19th-century manufacturing village with few removals or additions since production ended. The Crown Mill is described as the oldest surviving stone mill with a clerestory-monitor roof in Massachusetts, and the village is called the only complex of its quality left in the state's Blackstone Valley. Buildings are grouped by function and placed to suit the terrain, with the mills set apart across a meadow. Fire severely damaged the mills in 1975.